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Enlarge ImageRequest to buy this photoPhil Masturzo | AKRON BEACON JOURNALSherry Groom has 3,254 trolls and plans to display them in Alliance, Ohio, near the nonprofit Arts for Alzheimer’s Gallery. Groom, a psychiatric nurse, hopes that the two attractions can help raise awareness for people with dementia.

ALLIANCE, Ohio — On the Internet, trolls are the bane of any intelligent discussion. In fairy
tales, they are stumpy, greedy little beings who harass billy goats and passers-by. But in downtown
Alliance on Saturday, the 3,254 troll dolls on display at the Arts For Alzheimer’s Gallery and
Performing Arts Center were the good-luck kind that may have brought owner/collector Sherry Groom a
record for the largest troll collection in the world.